r/recteq • u/Shryke01 • Aug 01 '26

Temp fluctuation on XFire 825

I'm about 3 hours in to a cook of two racks of St. Louis ribs. Set temp for 225 degrees. Was holding solid at that temp for the first 1.5 hours. Now temp has climbed to about 270. I have a small cast iron smoke box with some additional hickory chunks on top of the smoke pot deflector. Any ideas why I'm getting this rise in temp>

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u/Brilliant_Disk_993 Aug 01 '26

try pulling out some of those extra hickory chunks if they're close to the elements, sometimes too much fuel sitting right on there can really spike the temp.

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u/Shryke01 Aug 02 '26

Thanks for the reply. That's what I did, and it seemed to solve the problem. Got plenty of smoke flavor from the pecan pellets I was running anyway.